Rangers suffered a series of disappointing results last season but now sit 16 points clear
Jamie Carragher has revealed the message he sent former Liverpool team-mate Steven Gerrard after a significant Rangers defeat.
Gerrard and Carragher both became legends in their time together at Anfield, and the former is now halfway through his third season as Rangers manager.
Although improvements were made in his first two campaigns, including morale-boosting wins over champions Celtic, both seasons were marred by slumps after the winter break.
This time round, Rangers have gone undefeated in their first 18 Premiership matches, and currently hold a 16-point gap at the top.
Carragher, who now works as a pundit for Sky Sports, says he was moved to contact Gerrard after a significant defeat for Rangers.
Speaking on Si Ferry’s Open Goal Podcast, Carragher said: “I haven’t had that much contact. I don’t get involved.
“He had a bad defeat, it was a bad one. It wasn’t just a defeat it was one of those ones where you go ‘Oh’.
“I sent him a long text, I’m not going to say what was in it.
“We’ve all been in football and we’ve all had our ups and downs but we all know when there’s one that gets you.
“They lost the cup final to Celtic but they played well and were unlucky, this is one of those defeats, it was at home and you think ‘that’s a bad one that’.
“But I’m not someone who is going to be saying ‘What’s it like up there?’.”
Rangers suffered their first domestic defeat of the season last week when St Mirren dumped them out of the Betfred Cup with a 3-2 win in Paisley, but Gerrard’s men responded well on Saturday with a 3-1 victory over Motherwell at Ibrox.
They travel to Perth on Wednesday night to face St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park as they aim to maintain their substantial lead.
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